Archive for Items Categorized 'US', only excerpts shown, click title for full entry.
Ford GT: How Ford Silenced the Critics, Humbled Ferrari and Conquered Le Mans
by P. Lerner, photos by D. Friedman
A mouthful of a title and one of the most colorful chapters in racing history. Lerner does not let all the hoopla get in the way of presenting a nuanced, properly researched account.
Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans
A.J. Baime
Not your normal racing book! The epic battle between H. Ford and E. Ferrari in the 1960s was about much more than the cars each built, or racing prowess and showroom sales. It was first and foremost about humiliating the opponent.
The Last Days of Henry Ford
by Henry Dominguez
Not just the “last days” but the last 18 months. New details and new perspectives paint a more human picture of this tortured tycoon.
Total Performers: Ford Drag Racing in the 1960s
by Charles R. Morris
If you think a Velvet Brute is an umbrella drink you’d better read this book, quick. Written by someone who drove those cars in that decade the book offers an authentic look at a very unusual era marked, not least, by a Chevy v Ford debate on full boil.
Montier’s French Racing Fords
by Chris Martin
Carroll Shelby wasn’t the first to take Ford to Le Mans, French Ford dealer Charles Montier was—forty years earlier, in the form of a hopped-up Model T!
Motorama: GM’s Legendary Show and Concept Cars
by David W. Temple
In the 1950s and ‘60s, if you couldn’t make it to the car show, GM would bring its cars to a big city near you in the form of a rolling auto show replete with specially made “dream cars” for just this event.
Show Rod Model Kits: A Showcase of America’s Wildest Model Kits
by Scotty Gosson
The wacky world of wacky kit cars is on full display here. Hot rods were once on the fringe—now they’re at Pebble Beach. Kit building is a great hobby, especially if you have the skills to color outside the lines.
The Little Bastards
by Jim Lindsay
Blue collar boys yearning for the fast lane. Trading their bicycles for hot rods they experience beer, women, racing, male bonding, and assorted drama. A fictional story—but you know people who lived just that story.
The English Model T Ford
by Barker, Tuckett, Lilleker
This book could interest a wider audience than the title suggests as it covers a variety of subjects. The emphasis is on non-factory special bodies.
Inside Shelby American
by John Morton
Morton’s story illustrates nothing more than that being in the right place at the right time really does matter. Not every janitor becomes a pro racer in the shop he once swept! Nor does every chicken farmer hatch a racing emporium.
Corvette – America’s Star-Spangled Sports Car
by Karl Ludvigsen
Only in its current iteration—61 years after its launch!—is the Corvette a legitimate sports car. How this piece of Americana got there is explored by a book fittingly launched on the 4th of July.
American Motors Corporation
by Patrick R. Foster
What started as the largest merger of car companies in US history had an ignominious end. Undeserved, the author says. Such much is AMC part of US culture that a 2008 car magazine touted the firm’s revival—only to be debunked as a cruel April Fool’s joke.
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